Ealdor-bisceop

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ealdor-bisceop

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ealdor-bisceop
Add: a chief priest, high priest of the Jews :-- Cwæð se ealdorbiscop dixit princeps sacerdotum (Acts, 7, 1), Hml. Th. i. 46, 6: ii. 422, 20. Ðá gýtsigendan ealdorbiscopas, i. 406, 5. Þám weardmannum þe wǽron ásænde fram þám ealdorbisceopum tó Crístes byrgenne, Hml. A. 78, 153. Hé gesamnode ealle þá ealdorbiscopas congregans omnes principes sacerdotum (Mt. 2, 4), Hml. Th. i. 78, 10. ealdor-bisceop
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